$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
End of Level 22: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 3 of 139
Average Stack: 556,000 (56 big blinds)

The final three players have just stepped away for a 15-minute break at the conclusion of Level 22. Here’s how they’ll stack up when they return to 6,000/12,000 blinds with a 2,000 ante:

Andre Crooks – 794,000 (66 bb)
Joshua Beckley – 583,000 (49 bb)
Joseph Cappello – 292,000 (24 bb)

Here are the remaining payouts:

1st: $40,308
2nd: $23,630
3rd: $13,900

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 22: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 4 of 139
Average Stack: 417,000 (42 big blinds)

Andre Crooks opened with an under-the-gun raise, and Erik Christensen called from the small blind.

The flop came . Christensen checked, Crooks continued for 28,000, and Christensen check-raised to 75,000. Crooks moved all in with the covering stack, and Christensen called all in for about 275,000 total, putting himself at risk.

Crooks:
Christensen:

Both players had flopped two pair, but Crooks’ two were superior. The turn was the and the river the , and Christensen was eliminated in fourth place.

Andre Crooks – 760,000 (76 bb)
Erik Christensen – Eliminated

$570 Double Black Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)

Event 13 had a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and the 240 entrants easily pushed it over that number. Besides the $200 bounty on every player, they have $72,000 in the regular prize pool with the last 27 getting a piece.

A min-cash is worth $648 and the entire final table is set to earn over $1,000. The winner will take home $20,160 along with the trophy and custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters.

1st: $20,160
2nd: $11,880
3rd: $6,840
4th: $5,544
5th: $4,320
6th: $3,600
7th: $2,850
8th: $2,160
9th: $1,440
10th – 12th: $936
13th – 15th: $792
16th – 18th: $720
19th – 27th: $648

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 21: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 5 of 139
Average Stack: 334,000 (42 big blinds)

Erik Christensen opened to 20,000, and Jean Gaspard three-bet shoved for just about 100,000 total. Christensen called to put him at risk.

Christensen:
Gaspard:

The board ran out . Gaspard sucked out on the turn, but Christensen re-sucked on the river to win the pot with top two pair. Gaspard was eliminated in fifth place as Christensen claimed his bounty.

Erik Christensen – 650,000 (81 bb)
Jean Gaspard – Eliminated

2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood
Event #9
$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Total Entries: 2,923
Prize Pool: $1,461,500
April 7 – 11, 2016

Event 9 was the third big, multi-starting flight tournament with on the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown schedule and the players came out in huge numbers. The $570 buy-in tournament had a $1 Million Guarantee that was surpassed early on Saturday afternoon and grew to $1,461,500 when registration closed later that evening. With the big crownd, the tournament needed an extra day to complete and it was Ruslan Dykshteyn taking the top prize of $184,705 plus the trophy.

The tournament drew nearly 3,000 entrants over the six starting flights with 567 of them moving to Day 2 action on Sunday. Only the last 250 players would earn a piece of the money and the bubble burst with two quick eliminations on the same hand.

Several players spent time on top the chip count leaderboard, including WPT World Champion Asher Conniff, but it was three-time WSOP champion Robert Mizrachi holding the lead when they paused action at 3am with 11 players remaining.

Local regular Zoltan Czinkota was quickly eliminated on the bonus day to set up the final table. Mizrachi continued to lead the final table as players busted at a steady clip. Dykshteyn took over the lead late when he eliminated Joel Dickerson and Safiya Umerova.

The four remaining players made a deal to chop up the remaining prize pool with each getting over $100,000. Dykshteyn took the biggest piece and Mizrachi was only $10K behind.

“I now have a trophy to go along with my ring,” Dykshteyn joked as he prepared for his winner’s photo.

Dykshteyn was very happy with his tournament victory and this is the second biggest cash in his career, not far behind the money he earned for winning the 2014 WSOP Circuit Main Event in West Palm Beach.

Day 3 Results:

1st: Ruslan Dykshteyn (Hallandale Beach, FL) $184,705
2nd: Robert Mizrachi (Las Vegas, NV) $174,700
3rd: Casey Kaplan (Coconut Creek, FL) $134,700
4th: Darren Rabinowitz (Las Vegas, NV) $124,700
5th: Safiya Umerova (Los Angeles, CA) $76,144
6th: Joel Dickerson (Marion, OH) $60,625
7th: Jose Beznos (Sao Paulo, Brazil) $45,307
8th: Ory Hen (Cooper City, FL) $30,692
9th: Jonathan Ruiz (Alafaya, FL) $21,923
10th: Rich Meyer (Cooper City, FL) $14,615
11th: Zoltan Czinkota (Davie, FL) $14,615

Event 9 Final Results

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 35: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 2,923
Average Stack: 14,600,000 (37 big blinds)

After Safiya Umerova’s elimination, the four remaining players quickly closed a deal to chop up the remaining money with everyone getting over $100,000. Rulsan Dykshteyn was in the lead to pick up the trophy and $184,705 to go along with it.

Tournament recap coming soon.

1st: Ruslan Dykshteyn (Hallandale Beach, FL) $184,705
2nd: Robert Mizrachi (Las Vegas, NV) $174,700
3rd: Casey Kaplan (Coconut Creek, FL) $134,700
4th: Darren Rabinowitz (Las Vegas, NV) $124,700

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 20: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 5 of 139
Average Stack: 334,000 (56 big blinds)

Erik Christensen opened to 15,000 under the gun, and Jean Gaspard called in the small blind.

The flop came , and both players checked.

“Oh you’re raising with nothing over there?” Gaspard asked. He bet 30,000 in the dark before the turn brought the . Christensen called.

Gaspard bet 130,000 in the dark this time, and the river brought the . Christensen called off all but his last 11,000 chips, showing for the nuts. Gaspard flashed , his two pair no good. Christensen doubled up.

Erik Christensen – 370,500 (62 bb)
Jean Gaspard – 85,000 (14 bb)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 20: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 6 of 139
Average Stack: 278,000 (46 big blinds)

Mohammad Arani – Eliminated

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 20: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Remaining Players: 7 of 139
Average Stack: 238,000 (40 big blinds)

Jean Gaspard doubled up twice in the last orbit, quickly working his stack out of the basement. “I’m going to get two bounties in the next 34 minutes,” he said, peeking at the time remaining in this level.

Gaspard opened to 15,000 under the gun, and Ian O’Hara three-bet shoved for 110,000 in the small blind. “All right, let me get that first bounty,” Gaspard said, calling to put O’Hara at risk.

Gaspard:
O’Hara:

The board ran out , and O’Hara could not catch up. Gaspard claimed his bounty, eliminating him in seventh place.

Jean Gaspard – 330,000 (55 bb)
Ian O’Hara – Eliminated

$570 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Re-Entry
Level 35: 150,000/300,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 2,923
Average Stack: 11,700,000 (29 big blinds)

Safiya Umerova’s final table took a bad turn once they leveled up. She lost half her stack against Ruslan Dykshteyn when his turned two pair beat her flopped top pair. She was down to 6.5 million and made a few attempts to double up.

Her last time saw her move all-in from the big blind after Dykshteyn opened to 800,000 from under the gun. He thought for a while then called with to dominate her . Umerova never picked up a sweat as the board ran out to send the recent LAPC Champion out in fifth place.